Vonnegut Quotes
Vonnegut Quote of the day
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment
The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.
We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.